Care home residents living with progressive illnesses are growing hops and brewing beer.
Elderly people are "challenging perceptions" and improving their wellbeing by making, tasting and selling beer with local brewers.
Residents from Meadowcare Home and Beaufort Grange in Bristol took part in the scheme, which "improved their memory and boosted their mood afterwards".Mr Manchester has spent years working in care homes and gardening with people who have dementia.Mr Manchester said he hopes the project challenges perceptions on what people in care homes want to do
"A person who I know, his mum was in a care home and they were just sat watching TV all the time - part of their identity was being ignored," added Mr Manchester, who also runs the Bristol Hops Society."When they started growing and making the beer, it was like watching people blossom, you could slowly see them coming to life.
Researcher Karen Grey said it is important to stay physically and mentally active the older we get, but explained in care homes the opportunities to do that become "diminished"."So many of us have a drink or a social drink of some kind and those environments are just part of life, that is why we wanted to include beer in this project," she added.
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